Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version two or any later version), Ardour is free software.[5] Users who download from the project's website are asked to pay at least $1 for downloading prebuilt binaries of Ardour; those users then have the right to obtain minor updates until the next major release. Another option is to subscribe, paying $1, $4 or $10 per month. Subscribers can download prebuilt binaries of all updates during the subscription period. (This makes Ardour an example of commercial free-libre software.) Without paying, users can download the full source code for all platforms, or a prebuilt demo binary which ceases playback after various time periods.[9] Several Linux distributions also provide prebuilt binaries, free of any software restrictions, as part of their repositories.